Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs
Category: Foundation Models / LLMs
Develops world-model-based AI systems that learn abstract representations of real-world sensor data for reasoning, planning, and safe action prediction. Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs was founded in 2025. The company is led by Alexandre Lebrun. Based in Paris, France. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $1.03B. Latest round: Seed ($1.03B, Mar 2026). Key investors include Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, Bezos Expeditions, Nvidia, Samsung, Sea, Temasek, Toyota Ventures, Bpifrance, New Legacy Ventures.
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- Paris, France
- Team size
- 11-50
- Total funding
- $1.03B
Value proposition
Delivers safe, controllable AI with persistent memory that understands continuous, high-dimensional real-world data, enabling cause-effect reasoning and task planning beyond the limitations of generative LLMs.
Products and solutions
Action-conditioned world models for agentic systems, Self-supervised representation learning models, AI systems with persistent memory and reasoning capabilities
Unique value
Builds JEPA-style latent predictive models that learn from physical sensor data (e.g., vision/video) to support cause-effect reasoning and action planning, moving beyond traditional token-prediction LLMs.
Target customer
Industry partners in reliability-critical sectors, product developers, and academic researchers
Industries served
Robotics, Industrial Process Control, Autonomous Driving, Healthcare, Automation, Wearable Devices, Augmented Reality
Technology advantage
Combines an elite founding team of AI pioneers (including Yann LeCun and Alexandre Lebrun) with a massive $1.03B seed funding advantage, enabling long-term foundational research scaling and global operations from day one.
How they differentiate
Develops JEPA-style latent predictive world models that learn from physical sensor data (e.g., vision/video) for cause-effect reasoning and action planning, moving beyond traditional token-prediction LLMs.
Main competitors
World Labs, Google DeepMind, OpenAI
Key partnerships
Exclusive strategic partnership with Nabla (first official partner; privileged access to AMI world models for healthcare AI), Strategic corporate investors (Nvidia, Samsung, Sea, Temasek, Toyota Ventures), Institutional investors (Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, Bezos Expeditions, Bpifrance), Academic and industry research collaborators via open publications/open source
Major milestones
Launched out of stealth in March 2026 with a record-breaking $1.03B seed round, Assembled an elite founding team of AI pioneers including Yann LeCun and Alexandre Lebrun, Secured strategic backing from major corporate investors including Nvidia, Samsung, and Temasek
Growth metrics
Pre-money valuation of $3.5B; early-stage research lab focused on foundational research with no short-term revenue
Market positioning
Foundational AI research lab building world models as a complementary alternative to autoregressive LLMs for real-world understanding
Geographic focus
Europe (Paris HQ) with hubs in New York, Montreal, and Singapore; active Asia partner outreach (e.g. Korea industrial/robotics)
Patents and IP
No registered patents disclosed as of latest update; current emphasis is on open publications and foundational research.
About Alexandre Lebrun
Co-founder and CEO of Nabla, Head of Engineering at Facebook AI Research, CEO at Wit.ai (acquired by Facebook), CEO at VirtuOz (acquired by Nuance).
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Official website: https://amilabs.xyz/